geni wrote: > 2009/2/9 Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com>: > >> The "real danger" is that stewards have access to global checkuser, so >> they can theoretically be used to trace users when forced by secret >> police of an non-democratic country. However, various special forces >> and secret services of democratic countries also use to force their >> citizens (and other countries citizens as well) to reveal various >> information, so we can use this argument against almost any country. >> Maybe global checkuser function should be given to Wikimedia Office? >> (Like Wikimedia Office actions function?) >> > For a western government the cost of the PR mess is unlikely to > outweigh any benefits. There are also various other issues that mean > that such interference is unlikely (the CIA legally can't touch > wikipedia since it is US based and I doubt any other intelligence > agency wants to annoy the US). > > So any attack from western countries is going to have to come through > fairly open legal means. Court orders and the like. Court orders tend > to be public which gives us a chance to react before the problem > rather than after. > > You seem to have forgotten the anti-terrorist paranoia built into the Patriot Act where, among other things, a library can be required to provide a record of the books you have taken out and forbidden to let you know about the demand.
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